Salsa

Salsa (2000) is a music, comedy film directed by Joyce Buñuel rated 6.5/10.

At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?

Cast

Vincent Lecœur

Rémi Bonnet

Christianne Gout

Nathalie

Catherine Samie

Letty

Michel Aumont

Monsieur Redele

Roland Blanche

Henry

Alexis Valdés

Félipe

Elisa Maillot

Françoise

Aurora Basnuevo

La Goya

Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente

Barreto

Christiane Cohendy

Madame Redele

Naím Thomas

Stéphane

Olivier Bénard

L'appariteur